Objective The analysis in this paper represents the first step of a multi-phase effort to understand the disease burden, and to develop strategies for tackling the health problems of Islamic populations. In this starting phase of the analysis, an overview of the burden of disease for selected Islamic populations is presented. Criteria Used for Country Selection Countries included in the analysi...

Discourse on women's reproductive rights through the lens of Muslim culture. The use of contraception, assisted fertility and abortion, are analyzed in Iran and Afghanistan. The culture surrounding family planning is detailed through a woman’s community, family, religion and the laws that govern the society they live in, which all influence her decision making in these matters. This piece stand...

The interpretation of the verses of the Qur’an regarding women’s rights, role, and leadership is a challenge and much debatable subject. In Islam, the Qur’an is seen by almost all Muslims as the words of Allah (swt). The majority Muslim exegetes interpreted the verses of the Qur’an by applying a method of literal reading. In modern context, Muslim feminist interpreters of the Qur’an have applie...

Which strategic water policy options are semi arid, developing, Muslim, countries going to take in order to face the dilemmas that typically characterize the dual – and potentially conflicting – aspiration to modernize the economy whilst respecting traditional sociopolitical practices and ways of life? This chapter focuses on the case of Morocco, described as one of the most liberal countries o...

The recognition of religious law in a democracy provides a good study of the impact of the constitution on the practice of religion in a multicultural society. This paper discusses the debate over the nature and form of Muslim Personal Law and a rights-based constitution in South Africa. It reviews the debate between competing interpretations within Muslim society. Secondly, it also places the ...

N. E. Rajeevan, P. P. Pradyumnan, Ravi Kumar, D. K. Shukla, S. Kumar, A. K. Singh, S. Patnaik, S. K. Arora, and I. V. Shvets Department of Physics, University of Calicut, Kerala-673 635, India Materials Science Division, IUAC, New Delhi 110 067, India Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India Department of Applied Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 00...

This paper documents the gap in secondary education progression between Muslims and nonMuslims using a panel dataset from Indonesia. The finding is that Muslim males face a lower chance of enroling in senior secondary level. For those who graduated from senior secondary, the probability of a Muslim male to enrol in college is around 53 percent lower than a nonMuslim male. It appears that equali...

This study presents a preliminary estimation of variations in demographic characteristics of the foreign “Muslim” population in Japan over the last two decades, particularly size and composition, as well as a preliminary analysis of intermarriages between foreign “Muslims” and Japanese. The major data derive from the Statistics of Foreigners Registered in Japan, which is supplemented by the pop...